Parser's Transformers stuff

<Parser> little spread out os bear with me
<Parser> introduction I had was
<Parser> The last great Cybertronian conflict has come and gone. Though overwhelmingly strong individually, the Decepticons proved to be no match for the Autobot's superior resources and manpower, and were gradually worn down.
<Parser> Suffering their ultimate defeat on the barren world of Chaar, the remaining Decepticon forces were left scattered and broken. Now, they hide in the dark corners of the galaxy, stockpiling weapons and energon; biding their time in hopes that one day their savior Megatron will rise again to lead them.
<Parser> Though much of Cybertron wishes to simply forget the war, Optimus Prime finds himself uneasy. In an attempt to root out the remaining Decepticon forces and bring them to trial, he has created the Decepticon Justice Divison. While a dirty job, the program had no shortage of volunteers among the more warlike Autobots- not to mention Decepticons looking for a new start.
<Parser> As for you: You are a member of the 37th unit of the DJD patrol, currently on your way to the third planet in the Sol system. Apparently, it was once home to a long-forgotten Cybertronian exploration base...
<Parser> the idea was something animated's basic setting but earth was neo-Chaar/Nebulon and cons had divided it up as turf
<Parser> western hemisphere was megatron's faction, eastern hemisphere was deathsaurus
<Parser> and then the PC base had a basement full of old jihaxus monster of the week experiments and
<Parser> Dr Arkeville working on manmade cybertronians
<Parser> I'm sure I have a more coherent document but I'm not sure what it's labeled as
<Parser> but what I've got here is mostly adventure hooks and gangs based on toy gimmicks
<Parser> the game was set to take place in New Jersey, one of the richest energon fields in the continental US which is why the water is so bad and everyone is so weird looking
<Parser> due to space fuel leaching into the water supply
<Parser> Arkeville was almost exactly going to be Dr Weird
<Parser> the primary gangs there were the Junkions, who were led by uh
<Parser> lemme find the name
<Parser> ah, here we go
<Parser> Gutcruncher basically ran a scrap metal racket across most of the contintental US and
<Parser> hires Junkions as mercs to protect this
<Parser> then there was Mindwipe, whose gang gimmick was Headmasters
<Parser> and he had like
<Parser> ten heads he could swap for different superpowers and would cut people's heads off and replace them with compliance device ones
<Parser> and then MYSTERIOUS THIRD POWER who had a gang consisting of humans and minicons and never left his car
<Parser> and his second in command was ratbat but ratbat was a double agent for soundwave without realizing it
<Parser> and that was an adventure hook where the party would run into Punch and he was hot on the trail of this mysterious crimelord who had a stranglehold on new jersey's arms dealing racket
<Parser> and the crime boss was Counterpunch, who in this was slated to be a split personality blackouts thing
<Parser> and every time he turned into a car he changed personalities to stereotypical mob boss
<Parser> the reason the party couldn't get backup ever was cuz
<Parser> every time they tried to contact cybertron, they'd either
<Parser> A. Get optimus but he was too busy keeping cybertron from falling apart to listen
<Parser> B. get rodimus but he didn't give a shit
<Parser> C. accidentally contact another squad and get an update on, like, the Wreckers attempts to subjugate Planet X
<Parser> which was a horrible beastformers shithole
<Parser> and then it's mostly a series of minor villains
<Parser> like Insecticons as an army of mindless bug drones that were also modular combiners
<Parser> and could link together into a giant mecha-centipede that eats everything metallic
<Parser> and then later someone would invent Cosmic Rust to try and wipe them out and this'd make everything worse
<Parser> there was also the MASK project creating Overlord on accident
<Parser> and Powermasters in general
<Spandez> I'll admit, I was considering having like
<Parser> government experiments in cybernetics turning desk jockey Cyrus Killinger into the maniacal Cy-Kill
<Spandez> COPS be happening on earth and Dr. Badvibes starts making Headmaster suits for the gang
<Parser> sounds rad
<Parser> oh, right
<Spandez> and uh
<Parser> after a certain threshold of gratiutous property damaged happened I was gonna have a gang of anti-robot vigilantes called the Circuit Breakers show up with
<Parser> ghetto EMP devices
<Spandez> the Monstroids from He-Man basically being peaceful colonists who've been menaced by the Manchines stealing their energon and protoforms for millenia
<Parser> mite b cool
<Spandez> so they've been getting brickier and less coordinated over time as they have to repair themselves with inferior materials
<Parser> but I think anyone would side against manchines tbh
<Spandez> well yeah
<Parser> oh, right
<Spandez> especially after they hear Zipper talk
<Parser> one adventure was gonna be that
<Parser> after hearing the local cons are having trouble keeping their rackets up (and they also don't want word of autobots getting leaked for fear of this)
<Parser> decepticon high command sends Clench to take over and it's
<Parser> a teamup with one of the recurring villains vs aggressively texan robot with the biggest gun
<Parser> Octane was hiding as Air Force 1 and killing him was an act of terrorism
<Parser> Toxitron was defender of Tromaville
<Parser> the mutants from beast machines were meant to make an apperance but I don't have a specific hook written down
<Parser> and that's all I got in this document specifically
<Spandez> so far I've got Gore-Lock's gang down as uh
<Spandez> a bunch of Action Masters, some of which are stuck in a monster mode
<Parser> I'd say look at the Mutants for that, actually
<Parser> they're beastformers who have no robot mode just
<Parser> another beast mode
<Spandez> Oh yeah, that's an option
<Parser> http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mutant_%28BW%29
<Spandez> maybe just car > plane for some of them
<Parser> http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/7/75/BWSourcebook-Soundwave.jpg
<Parser> had a weird soundwave
<Spandez> with Gore-Lock being a guy who's been underground since the age of the 13 Primes and he hasn't seen anyone not a mutant for millions of years
<Parser> makes sense
<Parser> oh right it's not in this specifically but I had it that
<Spandez> but he's combiner-tier huge and packing a bunch of bullshit sciencemagic
<Parser> at some point the base was gonna be exploded to stop something or other serious shit endboss and
<Parser> this unseals the Inhumanoids and/or Hate Plague
<Spandez> turns out it's a citybo- huh
<Parser> oh well that too I guess
<Parser> but the idea was this was
<Parser> every stupid toy gimmick in prototype stages
<Parser> from pre-war cybertron
<Spandez> I got a mining planet where Decepticon remnants getting into a firefight with PC's blows a hole in the planet's crust and unleashes the Inhumanoids
<Spandez> or gets the party into a blood feud with the Rock Lords
<Parser> sounds cool
<Parser> but yeah my primary method of generating adventure hooks was
<Parser> hit random a few times on tfwiki
<Spandez> but yeah uh
<Spandez> that intro is kind of perfect
<Parser> and ask how I would write a goofy saturday morning cartoon focused on this guy
<Parser> well, feel free to use it
<Spandez> the only question is do I keep the concept of "the Takkar Confederacy" where it's just the Brave robots as injuns
<Spandez> who hunt the evil local robots for their battery packs
<Parser> do they take native lifeforms as cockpit pets
<Spandez> yes
<Parser> sounds fun do it
<Spandez> they've got a longstanding tradition of adopting the small hairless meatbeasts as good luck charms
<Spandez> I think I had either
<Spandez> Swindle or this hick freight train transformer as the guy who would sell the party equipment as the game went on
<Spandez> and the hick's just basically robot Colonel Sanders
<Parser> Swindle makes the most sense but southern fried spacebus is appealing in it's own right
<Spandez> I figure Swindle is better for weapons and illegal mods, Spacebus is for legit shit and repairs
<Parser> maybe they're partners
<Spandez> Swindle and Grifter/Carpetbagger
<Spandez> ...well, Carpetbagger sounds more like a guy who turns into an old vacuum
<Parser> like, Swindle's store/space taxi is crazy sasuraiger spacetrain but
<Parser> then spacetrain is also a robot in it's own right
<Parser> I dunno
<Spandez> works for me
<Parser> and then you can have a later adventure that's
<Parser> spacetrain pulls up and when party enters swindle's been like
<Parser> kidnapped by the spacemob
<Parser> and trainformer needs to call in a favor and you're the most hardcore/low standards people he knows